AVIS Exchange going live.

In the latest high-profile switch to blockchain technology, the AVIS stock market will become the world's first blockchain-based stock exchange developed by an industrial group. The AVIS Bank announced that it will begin using the tech to clear and settle trades. This move has been in the works since 2016, when the AVIS Group began working on setting up the group's green Bank. AVIS have contracted a US team who maintains the basic patent for digital asset to develop a blockchain-based system. The exchange will outline its transition to the new technology in May and launch promoting.

All exchanges running on a system known as the Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (CHESS), which has been in use for decades. Euroclear, DTC, Clearstream, Crest are managing almost all the securities for the banking sectors. The new system allows for the savings to the tune of tens of millions of dollars and provide access for all businesses and industries to the stock markets. 

The implementation of the tech will help to make clearing and settling transactions less expensive, easier, and faster by removing the third-party middleman and the bank's monopoly. Read more

BENEFITS OF BLOCKCHAIN

In a press release, Digital Asset's CEO Blythe Masters said, “After so much hype surrounding distributed ledger technology, today’s announcement delivers the first meaningful proof that the technology can live up to its potential.”

The technology is a decentralized method of digitally recording data — in this case, transactions — and verifying them as having occurred. Instead of the ledger being held on a single computer or server, it is distributed over a network of computers, each having to verify the accuracy of a transaction. In theory, this makes the ledgers that use the tech virtually unhackable. However, after some high-profile hacks, the development has yet to live up to its promise.

Other major securities exchanges around the world, including the Nasdaq, the London Stock Exchange, and the Japan Exchange Group have also been looking into implementing blockchain technology. Even so, finance is not the only area in which implementation of blockchain could be transformative. Businesses and governments could benefit from its potential cost-saving effects, as well as increased security and transparency.

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Players in the markets must be well aware that many of the technology systems are inventions of IT youngsters. Their intentions are common by filling their pockets with monies from inexperienced small cap investors. They really do not have any clue in managing wealth. 

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